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| “ | A 14th century spirit that was contained and relocated here. Tests have yet to reveal origins, but all relevant information has been placed into testing chamber. Proved effective, but not greatly more than previous specimens. | „ |
| ~ Specimen 4's CAT-DOS entry. |
| “ | Come here... | „ |
| ~ Specimen 4 calling to the player. |
| “ | Could it really be true? I thought the fairy tales about the ghost that eats children who sneak in after class was just to keep us from disobeying. But Matsuri is still missing. | „ |
| ~ A note found in Specimen 4's area, detailing a potential victim of Specimen 4. |
Specimen 4, also known as Ringu, is a major antagonist in the 2014 indie video game Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion. She starts chasing the player from room 166.
She was voiced by Akuma Kira, who voices Spooky and various other Specimens in the same game.
Appearance[]
Specimen 4 appears to be an adult female with long, messy black hair and total white skin. Her eyes appear to be totally black as well as her lips which can open very wide. She appears to be wearing a purplish-gray garment with a white sash around her waist. Her fingers are very long, sharp, and bloody red in color. Her legs and feet and entirely black in color.
She has two forms in the Endless Mode. The first form appears to be much realistic and dangerously sinister than the original appearance. Her face appears to be much lighter and blood appears to be coming out of her lips. Her hair also appears to be more messier and lighter. While her legs are now white like her skin instead of the original black color, the sash has become red unlike the original white coloration.
The third form is quite similar to the second one, except her mouth hanging agape, revealing sharp teeth and a pointy tongue, and extra pairs of twisted arms on her back. In this form, she contorts and shakes violently.
Biography[]
Past[]
While Specimen 4's time alive is unknown, aside from living in the 14th century, considering how ghosts in Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion are born from tragedy, it's possible that Specimen 4's death was not a pleasant one, and caused enough suffering to allow her soul to linger as a ghost.
Some time before the events of the game, Specimen 4 haunted a school in an unknown location, where she started to hunt down and eat students who lingered after dark. While it's unknown how many people she consumed, she has claimed so many victims that she became an urban legend around the school.
At an unknown period of time, Specimen 4 would be contained in the facility, presumably summoned there by the KIRA genesis, where she would claim 85 victims.
Original[]
In the game, she starts appearing in an old abandoned Japanese school. In the school, the player could see black entities sitting or standing up just starting at the player. If the player touches them, the player will get damaged. At the end of Room 166, a rattle could have been heard, and Specimen 4 starts chasing the player.
While being chased, she tells the player to "Come Here" to try and seduce the player to come towards her. Once Specimen 4 kills the player, a video plays of her opening her mouth eating the player, while her bloody hands appear over her stomach saying that the player is safe now with her.
In the Endless Mode, Specimen 4 can chase the player as her alternative forms. She moves faster than her original form, but slows down when the player looks at her. While chasing them, a static overlay creates a circle around the player, progressively becoming closer until a camera snap is heard that resets the overlay. Her jumpscare and death screen are the same as her original form.
HD Renovation Mode[]
In the HD Mode, Specimen 4 appears in Room 167 instead of Room 166. A black fog appears around her and has what appear to be scan lines on her body. She is capable of moving faster as well. When close to the player, her jaw opens, wanting to eat the player.
Spooky's Dollhouse[]
In the original version only, Specimen 4 is one of the three specimens that can be sacrificed to the Hellgate to shut it down, the others being Specimen 6 and Specimen 8. In the HD Renovation version, she is replaced by Specimen 11. Her chase sequence consists of her Endless Mode form in rooms themed after the Japanese school. If she kills the player, her third form lunges out instead of her original form. Additionally, a new death screen is shown, consisting of a television with a flesh-like tunnel through the screen. Japanese kanji is shown that roughly translates to "It's a hole made for you to enter."
If the player is successful in evading her, Specimen 4 is sucked into the Hellgate, where she lets out one last dying curse before it shuts down, with her spirit presumably being destroyed for good. What happens to her should the player choose another Specimen is also unclear, though it's possible she was either able to move on to the afterlife or would slowly disappear alongside the rest of the horrors in the game, as described by the ending.
Audio Samples[]
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| "BREAKFAST WAS TOO LATE", Specimen 4's chase theme. | |
| "RINGU_AMB", Specimen 2's endless chase theme.
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Trivia[]
- She is based on the video game Corpse Party, while her internal file name is the romanization for the Japanese horror franchise The Ring.
- When Specimen 4 first appears, she is invisible until the player shines their flashlight at her. This effect disappears after leaving Room 166.
- Specimen 4 is the only Specimen to have two chase themes.
- Specimen 4's death screen during her chase in Spooky's Dollhouse references the short horror manga The Enigma of Amigara Fault.
- Specimen 4's chase theme was originally a music box track known as "BREAKFAST WAS TOO EARLY". It's unknown why it was changed to its more chiptune counterpart in the game proper.
- The number 4 is considered bad luck in Japanese culture due to its pronunciation being similar to that of death, which seemingly makes sense seeing how Specimen 4 mainly takes inspiration from Japanese media. However, according to Akira, the main developer of the game, this is nothing more than a coincidence.
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